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CVE-2026-43373

net: ncsi: fix skb leak in error paths PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ncsi: fix skb leak in error paths Early return paths in NCSI RX and AEN handlers fail to release the received skb, resulting in a memory leak. Specifically, ncsi_aen_handler() returns on invalid AEN packets without consuming the skb. Similarly, ncsi_rcv_rsp() exits early when failing to resolve the NCSI device, response handler, or request, leaving the skb unfreed.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before 9891d7f4f1ede473c54b49776ae07755083eef06; affected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before fef5aa6e3bcf3c8053307642663a63b7362d7552; affected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before 81d6aee32f8f7bbc175c05dbf61f4430bfb88c4a; affected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before 59962588197863d0d746879f193905c0c6b3df49; affected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before 553366c271479c0d571dd1bb5d1bcde4747fb82e; affected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before b70c4e5e711931cdd56e6e905737b72f1e649189; affected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before 87138dde2d6937b12b967f28fe598a7d59000ae4; affected 138635cc27c9737f940c3aa80912ff7a61c825af before 5c3398a54266541610c8d0a7082e654e9ff3e259
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.8; unaffected 0 before 4.8; unaffected 5.10.253 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.203 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.167 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.130 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.78 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.19 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.9 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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